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SGU Episode 111

2013-02-11T20:09:48Z

Paulbarman: /* Airline Sacrifices Goats (1:45) */

{{Transcribing all}}

== Introduction ==

You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

S: Hello & welcome to the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe. Today is Wednesday September 5th, 2007, and this is Steven Novella, uh your host. Let me say that again. And this is your host Steven Novella, President
of the New England Skeptical Society. Joining me this evening are Bob Novella.

B: Hey everybody.

S: Evan Bernstein

E: Hi everyone.

S: and Jay Novella

J: Hey guys.

S: Rebeca is on a cruse ship in Alaska.

J: With Randi.

S: She is with Randi, she is on the JREF Cruse, with Randy and some other prominent skeptics.

J: It's a booze cruise isn't it?

S: Well Rebecca is on it.

B: Right.

S: Apparently they are going to be doing some skeptical lectures at some point in time during the cruise.

E: Hopefully in the mornings.

B: That's a great cruise, I recommend it.

S: But she of course will be back with us next week.

E: I'm sorry, can I throw out that I wish everyone a happy teachers Day in India today?

J: Just in India?

S: Apparently you can.

E: Just in India, sorry, so everyone else has to remain ignorant, But uh in India Happy Teachers Day to all our India listeners.

S: Thank you Evan.

B: Do we have any?

J: Did we ever get an email from somebody in India, I don't even remember?

E: I believe we do, several.

S: I don't remember if we've ever gotten any emails from any listeners in India. Well if any of our listeners are from India send us a shout out to let us know that you're out there. This is our eleventy first episode.

E: I love that. A little tip of the hat to Tolkien.

S: Right, We have an excellent interview coming up later in the show with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

B: I can't wait for that

E: Yeah

== News Items ==

=== Airline Sacrifices Goats (1:45)===

S: Very good, but first let's do some news items. One news item that's been making the rounds this past week deals with the Nepal state run airline, who apparently sacrificed two goats to appease the Hindu sky God following technical problems with one of their Boeing 757 aircraft. So that was their response to the technical problems, to kill a couple of goats to appease the gods.

E: I wonder if it worked?

S: Well the plane didn't crash.

J: Do you think they have little like pen at the air port where they keep them there and raise them there?

S: Yeah, that would be efficient, you would keep goats right at the airport, sacrifice them as needed to the sky god.

E: Right next to the bar.

B: It dosent sound like something that is done very often, but wouldn't, after they sacrificed the goats,just wouldn't you have loved just to see the wing just fall off, just something like that happen.

E: While its on the runway.

B: Yeah, and nobody in it of course.

S: Actually I would like to see absolutely nothing happen, because anything will be interpreted as significant. Although nothing will be to, right.

E: But the Sky God!!

B: It's a win, win situation.

E: Think about that, think about back thousands of years when people were worshiping Zeus and Thor and whom ever elce, I mean this is what that smacks of, and its just incredible that people kinda really, they will take that seriously. I don't know what much more to say.

S: Every now and then something sticks out in the news where it's just a little bit of mid evil mentality popping into the 21st-century.

B: That's what I was thinking, after I read it my first though is what the hell year is it, come on.

E: Isn't it incredible, I mean in the face of this boeing 757 this magnificent feet of science and engineering, you are standing before it, the hundred years of aerodynamic study and flight study that went in to achieving this point in getting to this point of having this magnificent airplane, and you are sacrificing a goat to the sky god, is such a jux to position and contradiction, it's stark.

S: Yeah, just imagine.

J: Who makes the decision, did one pilot turn to the other and say " the plane dose not work, we must kill the goat". When does that happen?

S: I think it's probably someone above the pilot, only the highest officials can decide when the goats get slaughtered.

J: The guy in the tower? I mean, please help me Steve.

B: You wake up in the morning and uh, before you step in your car you sacrifice a rabbit, you know, you buy some lotto tickets, you sacrifice ten frogs, I mean you know.

J: Bob, 300 year from now, some complete jack ass is going to be taking a homeopathic remedy in a space ship going to Pluto.

S: Thats probably true.

B: Thats good Jay.

=== King Tut Exibit (4:40)===

S: The next two news items also are thematically linked, almost in an ironic way. the first one deals with the King Tut exhibit. There has been some controversy over this exhibit, based upon the way that King Tut is being portrayed. There are some in the African American community who think that he is being made to look too caucasian, or too white, and to be historically arrurate he should have more african features, and this has become quit a bit of a social controversy. You know I'm alway interested in the intersection between culture, politics, and science. This is the kind of question that you would think would be pretty definitively answerable by science, and yet it gets turned in to a political, sort of hot button, question, or topic.

SGU Episode 111

2013-02-11T18:37:17Z

Paulbarman: /* Introduction */

SGU Episode 111

2013-02-10T07:15:21Z

Paulbarman: Created page with "{{Transcribing all}} == Introduction == You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality. S: Hello & welcome to the Skeptic’s Guide to the..."

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2013-02-10T06:55:27Z

Paulbarman:

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* [[SGU Episode 394]], Feb 2, 2013
* [[SGU Episode 393]], Jan 26 2013
* [[SGU Episode 392]], Jan 19 2013 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 391]], Jan 12 2013 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 390]], Jan 5 2013

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* [[SGU Episode 389]], Dec 29 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 387]], Dec 15 2012 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 386]], Dec 8 2012
* [[SGU Episode 385]], Dec 1 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 381]], Nov 3 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 380]], Oct 27 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 377]], Oct 6 2012 {{Open}}
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* [[SGU Episode 350]], Mar 31 2012 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 349]], Mar 24 2012 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 348]], Mar 17 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 346]], Mar 3 2012
* [[SGU Episode 345]], Feb 25 2012
* [[SGU Episode 340]], Jan 21 2012
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* [[SGU Episode 338]], Jan 7 2012 {{tick}}

<big>'''2011'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 337]], Dec 31 2011
* [[SGU Episode 335]], Dec 17 2011 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 331]], Nov 19 2011
* [[SGU Episode 330]], Nov 11 2011
* [[SGU Episode 328]], Oct 29 2011
* [[SGU 24hr]], Sep 23-24 2011
* [[SGU Episode 320]], Aug 29 2011
* [[SGU Episode 312]], Jul 5 2011 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 308]], Jun 08 2011 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 287]], Jan 12 2011 {{Open}}
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* [[SGU Episode 285]], Dec 29 2010 {{open}}
* [[SGU Episode 271]], Sep 22 2010
* [[SGU Episode 260]], Jun 30 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 257]], Jun 14 2010
* [[SGU Episode 252]], May 12 2010
* [[SGU Episode 247]], Apr 7 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 245]], Mar 25 2010 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 232]], Jan 1 2010

<big>'''2009'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 220]], Oct 7 2009 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 216]], Sep 9 2009 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 185]], Feb 4 2009
* [[SGU Episode 184]], Jan 28 2009
* [[SGU Episode 183]], Jan 21 2009 {{i}}

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* [[SGU Episode 165]], Sep 17 2008
* [[SGU Episode 156]], Jul 16 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 152]], Jun 11 2008 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 146]], May 7 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 144]], Apr 23 2008 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 140]], Mar 26 2008 {{i}}

<big>'''2007'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 127]], Dec 26, 2007 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 123]], Nov 28, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 116]], Oct 10, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 113]], Sep 19, 2007 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 111]], Sep 5, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 110]], Aug 28, 2007 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 109]], Aug 24, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 105]], Jul 25, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 103]], Jul 11, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 102]], Jul 3, 2007
* [[SGU Episode 100]], June 19, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 98]], June 6, 2007{{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 97]], May 30 2007
* [[SGU Episode 89]], Apr 4, 2007 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 79]], Jan 24, 2007

<big>'''2006'''</big>
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* [[SGU Episode 73]], Dec 13 2006 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 68]], Nov 8 2006 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 62]], Sep 27 2006
* [[SGU Episode 61]], Sep 20 2006 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 55]], Aug 9 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 49]], Jun 28 2006
* [[SGU Episode 47]], Jun 14 2006 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 46]], Jun 7 2006 {{i}}
* [[SGU Episode 38]], Apr 12 2006 {{Open}}
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* [[SGU Episode 18]], Nov 2 2005 {{i}}
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* [[SGU Episode 16]], Oct 12 2005 {{Open}}
* [[SGU Episode 15]], Oct 6 2005 {{tick}}
* [[SGU Episode 14]], Sep 28 2005
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* [[SGU Episode 12]], Sep 7 2005
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* [[SGU Episode 10]], Aug 23 2005
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